Months after proclaiming a 'historic victory,' Israel embarks on another offensive against Iran — and the ritual erasure of political dissent begins anew.
Israeli rescue forces at the scene where an Iranian ballistic missile hit a residential area in central Tel Aviv, February 28, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The siren shattered the silence of Saturday morning across Israel. Not to urge civilians to rush to shelters, but rather to announce the outbreak of war itself — almost like a (…)

La mort tragique de Quentin Deranque a des conséquences politiques majeures qui risquent d'être durables. Ce peut être un point tournant. La LFI, la gauche radicale, les antifascistes, l'antifascisme sont mis au banc des accusés. Il faut faire front commun face à cette déferlante, mais il ne faut pas pour autant minimiser la gravité de ce qui s'est passé à Lyon. Quentin Deranque n'aurait pas dû mourir. Ce décès questionne notre éthique militante. La Jeune Garde est des nôtres et c'est (…)

In this previously unpublished interview conducted in June 2012, shortly before the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, historian and former FLN leader Mohammed Harbi traces Algeria's political trajectory from colonial formation to post-independence bureaucratic rule. Harbi analyses how the absence of a mature social class capable of imposing its dominance led to a political personnel drawn from emigrant workers and the urban petty bourgeoisie. He distinguishes between the (…)

Indonesia's largest environmental organisation, Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI, Indonesian Forum for the Environment), has condemned the memorandum of understanding signed between the Indonesian government and Freeport-McMoRan Inc to extend mining operations in Papua's Grasberg area until 2061. Calling the agreement a “red carpet” for continued extraction, WALHI argues it was negotiated without meaningful participation by indigenous Papuan communities and will deepen an ecological (…)

In December 2025, a Warsaw district court ruled that police had acted unlawfully during the 2020 protests against Poland's near-total abortion ban. Aneta Lakomá analyses this positive signal from lower courts, but situates it within Poland's deeper rule-of-law crisis: the Constitutional Tribunal and Supreme Court remain politically captured following years of manipulation by the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS) party. [AN]
A district court in Warsaw concluded in December last (…)